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Anatoly Lunacharsky
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Anatoly Lunacharsky

Russian revolutionary and politician

Born 11 November 1875 (Julian calendar) · died 26 December 1933, aged 58
Also known as Anatoly Vasil'yevich Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, Lunaçarski

Who was alive at the same time as Anatoly Lunacharsky?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  7. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  8. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  9. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  10. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  11. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  12. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  13. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  14. Anatoly Lunacharsky, 1875 – 1933
  15. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  16. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  17. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  18. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  19. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  20. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  21. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  22. John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963
  23. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  24. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

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When Anatoly Lunacharsky was born, Karl Marx was 57, Vladimir Lenin was 5, Mahatma Gandhi was 6, Leo Tolstoy was 47 and Charles Darwin was 66.

When Anatoly Lunacharsky died, Adolf Hitler was 44, Albert Einstein was 54, Ronald Reagan was 22, Nelson Mandela was 15 and Mahatma Gandhi was 64.

Born during Anatoly Lunacharsky’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin and Elizabeth II.

Not quite contemporaries: Donald Trump was born about 13 years after Anatoly Lunacharsky died, Abraham Lincoln died about 10 years before Anatoly Lunacharsky was born, George W. Bush was born about 13 years after Anatoly Lunacharsky died and Joe Biden was born about 9 years after Anatoly Lunacharsky died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,179 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Anatoly Lunacharsky. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1904.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  30. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  31. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  39. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  40. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  41. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  42. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  43. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  44. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  45. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  46. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  47. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  48. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  49. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  50. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  51. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  52. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  53. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  54. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  55. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  56. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  57. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  58. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  59. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  60. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  61. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  62. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  63. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  64. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  65. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  66. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  67. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  68. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  69. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  70. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  71. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  72. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  73. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  74. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  75. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  76. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  77. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  78. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  79. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  80. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  81. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  82. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  83. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  84. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  85. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  86. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  87. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  88. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  89. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  90. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  91. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  92. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  93. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  94. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  95. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  96. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  97. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  98. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  99. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  100. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  101. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  102. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  103. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  104. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  105. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  106. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  107. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  108. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  109. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  110. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  111. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  112. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  113. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  114. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  115. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  116. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  117. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  118. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  119. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  120. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  121. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  122. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  123. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  124. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992
  125. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  126. Federico Fellini 1920 – 1993
  127. Mahathir Mohamad born 1925
  128. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  129. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  130. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  131. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  132. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  133. Boris Yeltsin 1931 – 2007
  134. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  135. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  136. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  137. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008
  138. Jacques Chirac 1932 – 2019
  139. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  140. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  141. Stanley Kubrick 1928 – 1999
  142. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  143. Marlon Brando 1924 – 2004
  144. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  145. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  146. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  147. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  148. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  149. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  150. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893